You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

To close this series on gratitude and repentance, Dan takes a step back and asks,

what is the nature of what we are supposed to repent of?

Repentance is not easy, but it opens the door to freedom, delight, and honor.

As we move into a season of pondering and waiting, may we reflect on the realities we need to engage

in order to move into the beauty and bounty that follows repentance.

There's one claim that I'm hoping you're hearing through this series on repentance and gratitude.

And that is repentance may not be easy and I wouldn't say is a ball.

But what it opens the door to is the kind of freedom and play and joy that when you're aware of what it brings, there is a sense in which

the rich get richer, those who repent and repent in a way that it opens the door to a kind of

delight and honor that cannot be experienced honestly through any other means.

So what I want to do in our final category on this is to just go back and say, what's the

nature of what it is we're to repent of?

What does repentance look like, especially in contrast to sorrow unto death.

And what does it bring into the life of a person who actually finds a paradoxical freedom from the process of repentance?

Well, passage in Isaiah 30, and it's one of those that I strongly

recommend you just sort of open up chapter 30. I'm not going to go through each verse,

but I want to just cover a couple categories. Here you have in chapter 30, Isaiah acknowledging and expressing the concern about what he calls the

obstinate nation, who go down to Egypt without consulting me, who look to help to Pharaoh's

protection, to Egypt's shade for refuge.

In other words, when we make alliances with anyone and

anything other than God, our hearts are going to be on a path that leads to death. And

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